Early this morning, NOAA's GOESEast 🛰️ caught the flash of a meteor over northeast Oklahoma. Watch in this Geostationary Lightning Mapper (GLM) imagery as it enters Earth's atmosphere, shown as a blue spark over Wagoner County, OK. Learn more:
What do lightning strikes and meteoroids zipping through space have in common? It turns out they both can be tracked from a weather satellite. Scientists have discovered that the Geostationary Lightning Mapper on NOAA’s GOES-16 and GOES-17 satellites sees more than just lightning flashes in our skies.Meteoroids routinely bombard Earth's atmosphere from outer space.
In 2017, the Geostationary Lightning Mapper on-board NOAA’s GOES East satellite, detected several bolides throughout the Western Hemisphere. The observations occurred during the satellite’s post-launch test phase and were reported in aRecorded incidents of fireballs around the world, 1988-2018. Brighter colors denote larger impacts.
Date, time and location of the ten bolides studied by Jenniskens et al. . The 'yield' column shows the impact energy of each meteor, measured in kilotons of TNT.
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